Flashforward View By Robert J. Sawyer
| Title | : | Flashforward |
| Author | : | Robert J. Sawyer |
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FLASHFORWARDTwo minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the worldSuddenly, without warning, all seven billion people on Earth black out for than two minutes Millions die as planes fall from the sky, people tumble down staircases, and cars plow into each other.But that s the least of the survivors challenges During the blackout, everyone experienced a glimpse of FLASHFORWARDTwo minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the worldSuddenly, without warning, all seven billion people on Earth black out for than two minutes Millions die as planes fall from the sky, people tumble down staircases, and cars plow into each other.But that s the least of the survivors challenges During the blackout, everyone experienced a glimpse of what his or her future holds and the interlocking mosaic of these visions threatens to unravel the present
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Robert J Sawyer is one of Canada s best known and most successful science fiction writers He is the only Canadian and one of only 7 writers in the world to have won all three of the top international awards for science fiction the 1995 Nebula Award for The Terminal Experiment, the 2003 Hugo Award for Hominids, and the 2006 John W Campbell Memorial Award for Mindscan.Robert Sawyer grew up in Robert J Sawyer is one of Canada s best known and most successful science fiction writers He is the only Canadian and one of only 7 writers in the world to have won all three of the top international awards for science fiction the 1995 Nebula Award for The Terminal Experiment, the 2003 Hugo Award for Hominids, and the 2006 John W Campbell Memorial Award for Mindscan.Robert Sawyer grew up in Toronto, the son of two university professors He credits two of his favourite shows from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Search and Star Trek, with teaching him some of the fundamentals of the science fiction craft Sawyer was obsessed with outer space from a young age, and he vividly remembers watching the televised Apollo missions He claims to have watched the 1968 classic film 2001 A Space Odyssey 25 times He began writing science fiction in a high school club, which he co founded, NASFA Northview Academy Association of Science Fiction Addicts Sawyer graduated in 1982 from the Radio and Television Arts Program at Ryerson University, where he later worked as an instructor.Sawyer s first published book, Golden Fleece 1989 , is an adaptation of short stories that had previously appeared in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories This book won the Aurora Award for the best Canadian science fiction novel in English In the early 1990s Sawyer went on to publish his inventive Quintaglio Ascension trilogy, about a world of intelligent dinosaurs His 1995 award winning The Terminal Experiment confirmed his place as a major international science fiction writer.A prolific writer, Sawyer has published than 10 novels, plus two trilogies Reviewers praise Sawyer for his concise prose, which has been compared to that of the science fiction master Isaac Asimov Like many science fiction writers, Sawyer welcomes the opportunities his chosen genre provides for exploring ideas The first book of his Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, Hominids 2002 , is set in a near future society, in which a quantum computing experiment brings a Neanderthal scientist from a parallel Earth to ours His 2006 Mindscan explores the possibility of transferring human consciousness into a mechanical body, and the ensuing ethical, legal, and societal ramifications.A passionate advocate for science fiction, Sawyer teaches creative writing and appears frequently in the media to discuss his genre He prefers the label philosophical fiction, and in no way sees himself as a predictor of the future His mission statement for his writing is To combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic 
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FLASHFORWARDTwo minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the worldSuddenly, without warning, all seven billion people on Earth black out for than t
Robert J. Sawyer
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